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I sit on the church's highest windowsill, my head hung low. The rain was coming down hard, my leather jacket as heavy as my heart, weighed down by many emotions and turmoil. The sky was rumbling with the wrath and power that belonged to thunder. Down below, people were like ants scurrying to escape the downpour. The grey stone buildings of the town, while strong and ancient, made for a gloomy sight. They were like thin fingers all trying to reach the sky. Love...I know it's real...or do I? So many people of this world have such a mundane opinion of love...so many people think that something as beautiful as love can be easily attained, easily

I sit on the church's highest windowsill, my head hung low. The rain was coming down hard, my leather jacket as heavy as my heart, weighed down by many emotions and turmoil. The sky was rumbling with the wrath and power that belonged to thunder. Down below, people were like ants scurrying to escape the downpour. The grey stone buildings of the town, while strong and ancient, made for a gloomy sight. They were like thin fingers all trying to reach the sky. Love...I know it's real...or do I? So many people of this world have such a mundane opinion of love...so many people think that something as beautiful as love can be easily attained, easily

CHAPTER 1 My mother flips the bird to an unwitting driver as she overtakes the rattling hunk of metal that passes for    our car. 'Stinkin' idiots! Women drivers like them's the ones that does us a bad name. You remember Belly Spawn, never let another woman see you as weak. But if there's a man involved, ALWAYS act weak!' 'Why?' I ask glaring at her over a bird cage balanced on the gear stick. 'Because that's the only way to get what you want from a man- by looking needy and dependent.' I pull my black hoodie up over my ears and process this new information as Mom mumbles curses under her breath through our journey but a glimpse of the s